alt.social-security-disability

On Feb 18, 7:49=EF=BF=BDpm, "DrFeelgoodWA" wrote:=

> "Relayer" wrote in message
>
> news:6c2d514a-7e12-4332-bde4-a4bf22ab5857@...
> On Feb 18, 7:00?pm, faye wrote:
>
> > Hi, I found out last Nov. of 2007 my ex-husband has been on SS
> > disability. ?I am in custody of our ?dependent daughter since our
> > seperation since Aug., 2004. She was a Jr in high school . He has
> > been
> > receiving app $
> > since Nov. of 2005. ?Now I am appealing to get the $ a month
> > that was to come to us from Nov. 2005 until high school graduation
> > which was June 2007. Can anyone advice me.??? ?It has been 3 mths.
> > Thank you
>
> If you have legal custody via a court order, and he actually applied
> for her also (family benefit), simply go to the nearest SSA office,
> present them with the CO and ask to be made "Representative Payee".
> They are very cooperative in this matter and it will be taken care of.
>
> She has already graduated . and is no longer entitled to benefits.
> If he was claiming the daughter he could be charged with fraud unless
> he used all of her money for her needs. There is just not enough
> information presented to make heads or tails of this situation as far
> as I'm concerned. =EF=BF=BDThe somewhere near $ could have been all=
his
> share and he never claimed the daughter or it could have been the
> combined benefit. A visit to her local SS office could yield much
> better facts. Was it a sole custody situation or did he have
> visitation or even shared custody?

Opps..jeez..I need to read better...duh...

You are 100% correct.

As far as custody, it depends on the state and every state is
different. In Illinois, it would go to whoever has physcial custody,
as there is no such thing as shared custody (a lot of other states are
like this also).